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Alas, that was not to be. Not only did the couple split, but their parting has also culminated in a bizarre lawsuit filed against McNutt earlier this month by Zauhar and her brother John Dahl. The two are demanding more than $150,000 from the businessman, claiming that he accepted a lifesaving kidney from Dahl in exchange for a promise he did not keep: to love and care for Dorothy Zauhar always...
...disorder, had begun dialysis treatment and learned that he would eventually need a kidney transplant. Zauhar was eager to donate one of her kidneys, but doctors determined she was not a medical match. By December 1994, after McNutt had presented Zauhar with a 3 1/2-carat, $21,500 engagement ring, Dahl stepped forward as a willing and suitable donor with a gentleman's understanding, Dahl says, that McNutt would buy him a life-insurance policy, give him money to compensate for the pay he'd lose while recovering from surgery and--most important and perhaps most unrealistically of all--promise that...
...romance had been moving rapidly--with McNutt purchasing a $500,000 home for the couple in October 1994. The wedding date was scheduled for September 1995, but McNutt postponed it. A second date was scheduled for July 1996, right after his operation, but McNutt canceled that plan too. Dahl says the insurance policy and cash never surfaced either. Last March, Zauhar says, she confirmed what she had suspected for months: that McNutt was seeing another woman, a dialysis nurse named Patti Sue Bennett. Zauhar left McNutt soon after. He in turn made Bennett his fourth wife in June...
...After reading Roald Dahl, Shell Oil seemed exciting, but now they are very exploitive," Shell said...
What happened in Boulder on Christmas night was, among other things, proof that tragedy honors no boundaries. Of course we knew that, but one continues to hope. I read in a magazine once that Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl decided to leave Manhattan after their son Theo was brain damaged in a car accident; his nanny was pushing him across the street in a carriage when a taxi jumped the light. Deciding Manhattan was not a safe place to raise kids, they moved to a farmhouse 30 miles outside of London. A year later, their daughter Olivia died...